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Boilerplate (80 words)
travisBREAKS is the recording project of Travis Bonnet: 20+ years on the decks, four albums of original work, and operator seats at Livid Instruments, OSM, and GigCasters. Red Plastic Records has carried the name since 1996. The curated AI-inclusive era opens in 2026 with the Many Names EP, threading organic electronic textures through close-mic vocal harmony and modal vocabulary.
EPK bio (200 to 400 words)
travisBREAKS is the recording project of Travis Bonnet. The path: a sound board at age 8, piano and saxophone through school, then 20+ years behind the decks in the Austin electronic scene from the late 1990s on. He opened for The Crystal Method at Empire Control Room in January 2018, played a marathon set at Burning Flipside, and has held operator seats at the intersection of music technology and live performance: CEO at Livid Instruments through a 362% Kickstarter campaign, COO at OSM, technical director at GigCasters, producer on festival builds in between.
The recorded catalog runs deep. Forty-plus released tracks across four full-length albums (THOUGHTCRIMES, BEAUTY IN RUIN, GLITCH SEASON, SANDCASTLE DREAMS), the Sunday Practice devotional collection, and a fifteen-song bard catalog written for D&D characters across the Forge campaign. The work is restless across genres and consistent in approach.
Red Plastic Records has carried the name since 1996, traced to a teenage rock band (Red Plastic Cup, industrial-tinged hard rock around downtown Austin in 1995-96) and spun across Travis's catalog ever since. In 2026, the label opens its curated AI-inclusive era: an independent home for AI-inclusive music with human authors at the center. The label sits aligned with the PRO human-authorship floor (ASCAP, BMI, and SOCAN updated their stance on partially-AI compositions in October 2025) and Spotify's spectrum-not-binary disclosure framework (September 2025). Reference point on the A&R side: Erased Tapes, where the relationship drives the roster and the work itself is the announcement.
The Many Names EP is the label's first major release: three tracks built through a harvest-and-collate methodology that treats AI generation (Suno) as a collaborator, stem separation (Moises) as a workbench, and Ableton as the room where the record gets mixed and mastered by hand. Two-plus years of iteration sit underneath it. Musically the EP draws on Bonobo's organic electronic spine, Bon Iver's falsetto self-harmony and breathy close-mic, Max Richter's compositional ambient, Jacob Collier's modal mixture, and Ólafur Arnalds' chamber fusion, with Anoushka Shankar's modal vocabulary surfacing on Same Cup. The arc moves through restlessness toward an earned devotional turn at the EP's close.
Travis has been in recovery since October 2020. He is both the founder of Red Plastic Records and a roster artist; the label is real, the catalog is expanding, and the EP is the opening statement.
Many Names, EP narrative
Three songs, one vessel. Many Names is an EP about what one cup holds (rain water, wine, blood, mud). Track 1 is the seed going in the ground ("Plant me as a quiet seed / Cover me with rain / What I lose has done me good / What I bury has many names"). Track 2 is the days after the medicine work ("Show me what I might have said / Show me what was almost true"). Track 3 is the cup spilling over: Eastern modal vocabulary held against Western chamber, polymeter 4/4 against 7/8 vocal, the EP's earned moment of directness ("Let God fill it up / SPILL").
Plant-medicine-healer adjacent without ceremony language. Bonobo's organic electronic spine with Bon Iver's falsetto self-harmony, Max Richter's compositional ambient, Jacob Collier's modal mixture, and the ney-and-oud chamber-Eastern fusion practice of Ólafur Arnalds layered over Anoushka Shankar's modal vocabulary. Made in Austin via a Suno to Moises to Ableton workflow that treats AI as collaborator, not replacement; the harvest-and-collate craft is 2+ years deep before this EP, documented in iteration logs across the Red Plastic Records workshop.
Press photos
High-res press photographs available on request. Email [email protected] with the outlet context and we send same-day. Available formats: square, landscape, portrait; 1500px+ on the long side; on-stage, studio, and portrait selections.
Press audio access
For pre-release reviewers and editorial playlist curators: a private SoundCloud preview link is available on request. Email [email protected] with your outlet or playlist context and the link is shared back same-day.
Press inquiries
Travis Bonnet (travisBREAKS) responds personally. Same-day turnaround on most requests.
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For the press release or pitch
Artist: travisBREAKS (Travis Bonnet)
Label: Red Plastic Records (since 1996; curated AI-inclusive era opens 2026)
Release: Many Names EP
Release date: 2026-06-21
Format: 3-track EP, digital release
Style tags: Chamber-fusion ✦ Devotional-ambient ✦ Folktronica ✦ Electronic ✦ Indie
Mastering target: -14 LUFS integrated ✦ -1.5 dBTP true peak
Distribution: Symphonic Distribution (Partner tier pending; 200+ DSPs)
RIYL: Bonobo ✦ Bon Iver ✦ Max Richter ✦ Ólafur Arnalds ✦ Nils Frahm ✦ Jacob Collier ✦ East Forest ✦ Trevor Hall